ECRI Now provides unique insights on pressing healthcare issues. In each episode, ECRI’s subject matter experts share their experience in relationship to the latest healthcare news.
Topics will range from ethical issues in healthcare, patient safety, infection control, healthcare IT and spend management across the continuum of care from health systems to non-acute care settings.
ECRI Now provides unique insights on pressing healthcare issues. In each episode, ECRI’s subject matter experts share their experience in relationship to the latest healthcare news.
Topics will range from ethical issues in healthcare, patient safety, infection control, healthcare IT and spend management across the continuum of care from health systems to non-acute care settings.
Clinical algorithms that include considerations of patients’ race have complex effects, sometimes making care disparities worse, and sometimes helping to reduce disparities. In this episode, ECRI’s Kelley Tipton, MPH, Associate Director of Evidence Contracts & Consulting, describes an ECRI-Penn Medicine Evidence-Based Practice Center (EPC) systematic review of the evidence related to racial considerations in clinical algorithms. For more details, read the full EPC report and a systematic review published March 12, 2024, in Annals of Internal Medicine.
